Melt Focus vs DashboardToday
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Melt Focus
This app uses a unique visual metaphor of melting ice to help users track focus sessions. It offers customizable timers, progress tracking, and reflective journaling to build consistent habits without feeling overwhelming.
- Customizable focus sessions
- Session history and progress statistics
- Journal reflections
- Home Screen widgets
- Ambient focus sounds
- Secure syncing across devices
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Melt Focus is a calming focus timer designed to help you start, stay present, and see your progress over time. Choose a session length, begin focusing, and watch the ice melt as time passes. Each completed session contributes to your focus history, helping you build consistency without making productivity feel overwhelming. Features include: • Custom focus sessions • Pause, resume, complete, or end sessions early • Session history and progress statistics • Journal reflections after focusing • Home Screen widgets • Live Activities and Dynamic Island support • Ambient focus sounds • Reminders and customizable settings • Secure syncing across devices Melt Focus Pro provides access to additional premium features and personalization options. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled through your Apple Account settings. Restore Purchases is available inside the app. Whether you are studying, working, reading, or building a better routine, Melt Focus helps make each focused minute count. Privacy Policy: https://www.melt-focus.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.melt-focus.com/terms
DashboardToday
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What if your whole day fitted on a single page? DashboardToday brings together the essentials of your day at a glance: the date and the weather, your appointments and reminders, your notes, your habits and even your photo of the day. No more juggling ten apps — it's all here, clear and elegant. YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE - The date, the time and the weather where you are - Your appointments, from your Apple and Google calendars - Your reminders, with urgent tasks always on top - Tick reminders off right inside the app - A notes area, by keyboard or with the Apple Pencil - A space to draw - Your photo of the day WIDGETS ON YOUR HOME SCREEN - How many appointments you have today - How many reminders are still waiting - How far along your habits are Free, and without even opening the app. KEEP THE MEMORY OF YOUR DAYS - A complete history, day after day - Habit tracking with a weekly goal - A weekly summary you can export as a PDF A REAL MAC APP, NOT A BLOWN-UP IPHONE APP Native on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with iCloud sync. One purchase unlocks everything, everywhere. Available in English, French and Spanish. YOUR DATA IS YOURS No account to create, no data collected. No ads, no trackers, no usage analytics. Your content stays on your device and, if you turn it on, in your own iCloud — I have no access to it. Only the weather queries a third party, Open-Meteo, with an approximate location and no identifier. FREE AND PRO The essentials are free: today's page, the weather, your calendar, your reminders, notes, drawing, photo and the widgets. DashboardToday Pro, a one-time €9.99 purchase that lasts for life, adds the full history, unlimited habits and the weekly PDF summary. Never a subscription. Simple, beautiful, distraction-free: DashboardToday helps you start every day on the right foot.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Melt Focus at none against DashboardToday's 1. Melt Focus also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. DashboardToday sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Melt Focus asks for nothing beyond the download.
Melt Focus ships an update every 6 days, DashboardToday fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Melt Focus | DashboardToday |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL CORDERO | Charles De ribas |
In-app purchases
Melt Focus
No in-app purchases
DashboardToday
- DashboardToday Pro$8.99









